Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Johnson

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Dylan Thomas

This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Diogenes

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.

Diogenes

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

Dean Martin

When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

Anacreon

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

Anacreon

For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

Alton Brown

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

Alton Brown

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

Chuck Palahniuk

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Christopher Marlowe

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

Colin Powell

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Donald Trump

So I wanted to put that to rest: So you have the water, you have the steaks, you have the airline that I sold. I mean, what's wrong with selling?Every once in a while you can sell something. You have the wines and all of that. And Trump University, we're going to start it up as soon as I win the lawsuit.

Andrea Navedo

I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

Andrea Navedo

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

Ambrose Bierce

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce

Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

Ambrose Bierce

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Ambrose Bierce

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Alfred de Musset

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Alfred de Musset

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

Amy Smart

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

Anthony Burgess

The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

Anthony Burgess

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

Alexandre Dumas

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

Edgar Allan Poe

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

Eduardo Galeano

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

Edward Abbey

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Edward Abbey

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

Aristotle

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Basil Bunting

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.